<div dir="ltr">And irony. The Knight is the less competent one. And despite his cynicism Sancho is practical and effective. There is the scene in which Don Quixote is very "presumido" arrogantly proud to be in possession of the helmet of Mambrino, a very famous and valiant, knight. Sancho finally says but, your honor, don't you see it is a simple barber's basin? Don Quixote says, impatiently, but, Sancho, of course it looks like a barber's basin because then envious people won't realize what it is and won't try to steal it. Or words to that effect.<div><br></div><div>Frank</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 27, 2020 at 3:30 PM Jon Zingale <<a href="mailto:jonzingale@gmail.com">jonzingale@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Steve,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)">you write:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.44px"><font face="monospace">my young (30something) Spanish (Basque) colleague from Wales speaks of the DQ tale as if Sancho Panza is the true hero/protaganist, which was what I suspected in my own first reading.</font></span><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,51)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:13.44px"><font face="monospace"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">It is great that you mention this. I have pretty much felt the same</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">way about Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. In some ways, I feel that</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px"><i>Don Quixote</i> was the spiritual predecessor of Voltaire's <i>Candide</i>.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">In both cases, I feel a strong sense of contempt emanating from the</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">authors and focused upon the titular characters. In the case of Cervantes,</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">he is quite a bit more clever. Situating Sancho Panza as the protagonist,</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">Cervantes himself does not seem to have much patience for <i>idealistas</i>,</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">gives us a protagonist in a submissive power role. He watches after the</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="verdana, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.44px">Don </span></font><span style="font-size:13.44px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">and is charged with an impossibly compassionate task. The whole</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.44px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">affair has a wit, sarcasm, and dare I say humor.</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.44px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.44px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Jon</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:13.44px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div>
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